Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/August 29

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Dunkelza 19:57 August 23, 2005 (EDT)

Okay. But I'd mention the taxes first. -- PFHLai 01:19, 2005 August 24 (UTC)
I changed it again. The verb 'to protest' doesn't seem to fit a rebellion. BTW, where should the apostrophe be ? -- PFHLai 01:24, 2005 August 24 (UTC)
Where you have it is fine. That's the place it is most commonly located. There was some debate by a Strunk & White fan on the Talk page that led to us dropping it altogether from the article's main title. I'll fix this entry to match the article title ("the Shays Rebellion"). Dunkelza 12:24 August 24, 2005 (EDT)
Need help moving the article ? -- PFHLai 18:42, 2005 August 24 (UTC)
Thanks, but I think we're best off leaving it as is, just for the sake of encyclopedic consistency. I appreciate the offer, though. Dunkelza 17:30 August 25, 2005 (EDT)
You are welcome. :-) -- PFHLai 02:28, 2005 August 26 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane Katrina anniversary

This disaster should be on the MainPage, but I suggest a rewrite to focus on what happened on August 29th. The damages were done over a number of days. How about mentioning the hurricane making landfall near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana or the levees getting breached in New Orleans ? -- PFHLai 19:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military-Heavy?

We have four military events: an invasion, a battle and two rebellions, and only one non-military event. While these are all certainly notable, couldn't we replace a couple of them with other events so as to avoid a heavy military focus? —Cuiviénen 01:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

I've replaced Shay's Rebellion with Michael Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic induction. Science rarely gets a spot in "On This Day", the discovery is very important to science, and it reduces the number of rebellions in this "On this Day" to one. —Cuiviénen 01:56, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes, it's military-heavy. I ain't happy with it, but Michael Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic induction cannot be used yet. That date is not confirmed and cannot be found in either article. -- PFHLai 15:28, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
When the date of this discovery is confirmed and added to the relevant articles, please consider replacing the 1907 item with this. The collapse of the Quebec Bridge is not that significant. It's added there to "dilute the military-centrism" on the template for now. Thanks. -- PFHLai 16:27, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
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